/// <summary>
        ///  Returns the FSHP hash of password
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="password">Encoded to bytes with UTF-8.</param>
        /// <param name="salt">Byte representation of salt to be used in hashing Encoded to bytes with UTF-8.</param>
        /// <param name="saltlen">Length of the salt to be generated.</param>
        /// <param name="rounds">Number of hashing rounds.</param>
        /// <param name="variant">FSHP variant indicating the behaviour and/or hashing algorithm
        ///  to be used.
        ///  0: SHA-1 (not recommended)
        ///  1: SHA-256
        ///  2: SHA-384
        ///  3: SHA-512
        /// </param>
        /// <returns>FSHP hash of password</returns>
        public static String crypt(byte[] password, byte[] salt, int saltlen, int rounds, int variant)
        {
            // Ensure we have sane values for salt length and rounds.
            if (saltlen < 0)
                saltlen = 0;
            if (rounds < 1)
                rounds = 1;

            // if salt is null, we generate a random one.
            RNGCryptoServiceProvider CryptoRng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();

            if (salt == null) {
                salt = new byte[saltlen];
                CryptoRng.GetBytes(salt);
            } else {
                saltlen = salt.Length;
            }

            HashAlgorithm hash;
            switch (variant) {
                case 0:
                    hash = new SHA1Managed();
                    break;
                case 1:
                    hash = new SHA256Managed();
                    break;
                case 2:
                    hash = new SHA384Managed();
                    break;
                case 3:
                    hash = new SHA512Managed();
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new Exception();
            }

            hash.Initialize();

            byte[] saltedPassword = new byte[salt.Length + password.Length];

            salt.CopyTo(saltedPassword, 0);
            password.CopyTo(saltedPassword, salt.Length);

            // Round 1
            byte[] hashBytes = hash.ComputeHash(saltedPassword);

            // ...and other rounds.
            for (int i = 1; i < rounds; i++) {
                hashBytes = hash.ComputeHash(hashBytes);
            }

            string meta = "{FSHP" + variant + "|" + saltlen + "|" + rounds +"}";
            byte[] saltdigest = new byte[salt.Length + hashBytes.Length];
            salt.CopyTo(saltdigest, 0);
            hashBytes.CopyTo(saltdigest, salt.Length);

            string b64saltdigest = Convert.ToBase64String(saltdigest);

            return meta + b64saltdigest;
        }